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About two decades ago, a person who you today would call “hikari_no_yume” borrowed a book from the local library about a programming language. She read it cover to cover and found it very interesting.

She never applied the knowledge in practice, and so she never learned anything

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Moses Izumi , @moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org
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If every OS shipped a software development toolchain and every application had a "view source code"-button, the world wouldn't need programming courses.

I'm sure you could sneak such a feature into Wine's window manager: or at least a button that opens the currently running program in a disassembler.

The Linux/BSD ecosystem has had every opportunity to add such features, but they don't seem to have done it (beyond the OLPC and this Chaos Social thread):
https://chaos.social/@blinry/116097629697544212
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